Synonyms of the word

assume

• v. To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
• v. To take on a position, duty or form.
• v. To adopt a feigned quality or manner.
• v. To receive or adopt.
• v. To adopt an idea or cause.

accept

• v. (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
• v. (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
• v. (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
• v. (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
• v. (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
• v. (transitive) To endure patiently.
• v. (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
• v. (transitive) To receive officially.
• v. (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
• adj. (obsolete) Accepted.

acquire

• v. (transitive) To get.
• v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
• v. (medicine) To contract.
• v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

adopt

• v. (transitive, with relationship specified) To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend,…
• v. (transitive, with relationship implied by context) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…
• v. (transitive, with relationship implied by context) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
• v. (transitive, with relationship implied by context) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
• v. (transitive) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
• v. (transitive) To select and take or approve.

anticipate

• v. (transitive) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
• v. to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.
• v. to know of (something) before it happens; to expect.
• v. to eagerly wait for (something).

arrogate

• v. (transitive) To appropriate or lay claim to something for oneself without right.

bear

• n. A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and…
• n. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
• n. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
• n. (slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
• n. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
• n. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
• n. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
• v. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
• adj. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices…
• v. (transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.
• v. (transitive) To carry something.
• v. (transitive) To be equipped with (something).
• v. (transitive) To wear or display.
• v. (transitive, with witness) To declare as testimony.
• v. (transitive) To put up with something.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
• v. (intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
• v. (intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
• v. (intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
• v. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To press.
• v. (trasitive, intransitive) To take effect; to have influence or force.
• v. (intransitive, usually with on or upon) To relate or refer.
• v. (transitive) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
• v. (transitive) To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
• v. (transitive) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
• v. (transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
• v. (transitive) To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
• v. (transitive) To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).
• v. (transitive) To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
• n. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
• n. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

dissemble

• v. (transitive) To disguise or conceal something.
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (transitive) To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
• v. (intransitive) To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.

don

• n. A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
• n. A mafia boss.
• v. (transitive, clothing) To put on, to dress in.

dress

• n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
• n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
• n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
• n. A dress rehearsal.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
• v. To adorn, ornament.
• v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
• v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
• v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
• v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
• v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
• v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
• v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
• v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
• v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
• v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

expect

• v. To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or…
• v. To consider obligatory or required.
• v. To consider reasonably due.
• v. (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.

feign

• v. To make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit.
• v. To imagine; to invent; to pretend.
• v. To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
• v. To hide or conceal.

invite

• v. (transitive) To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To request formally.
• v. (transitive) To encourage.
• v. (transitive) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
• n. (informal) An invitation.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

presume

• v. (transitive, now rare) To perform, do (something) without authority; to lay claim to without permission.
• v. (transitive) With infinitive object: to be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority…
• v. (transitive) To assume to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
• v. (intransitive) To be presumptuous; with on, upon, to take advantage (of), to take liberties (with).

pretend

• v. To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
• v. To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
• v. To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to).
• v. To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold before one; to extend.

receive

• v. To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.
• v. To take possession of.
• v. To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence,…
• v. To incur (an injury).
• v. To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.
• v. (telecommunications) To detect a signal from a transmitter.
• v. (sports) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To accept into the mind; to understand.
• n. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is received.

seize

• v. (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
• v. (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
• v. (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
• v. (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To fasten, fix.
• v. (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
• v. (intransitive) To have a seizure.
• v. (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
• v. (Britain, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.

sham

• adj. Intended to deceive; false.
• adj. counterfeit; unreal.
• n. A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine.
• n. Trickery, hoaxing.
• n. A false front, or removable ornamental covering.
• n. A decorative cover for a pillow.
• v. To deceive, cheat, lie.
• v. To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
• v. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

simulate

• v. To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.
• adj. (obsolete) Feigned; pretended.

strike

• v. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
• v. (heading, physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
• v. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
• v. (heading, personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
• v. To touch; to act by appulse.
• v. (heading, transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.
• v. (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
• v. (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
• v. (dated) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
• v. (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
• v. To make and ratify.
• v. To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level…
• v. (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
• v. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
• v. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
• v. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
• v. (obsolete) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
• v. To balance (a ledger or account).
• n. (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
• n. A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
• n. A blow or application of physical force against something.
• n. (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise…
• n. An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
• n. (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
• n. The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
• n. (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the…
• n. An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is…
• n. (obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
• n. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
• n. (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
• n. (obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
• n. The discovery of a source of something.
• n. A strike plate.

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

usurp

• v. To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.
• v. To use and assume the coat of arms of another person.
• v. (obsolete) To make use of.
• v. To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else.

wear

• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off;…
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or…
• v. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
• v. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or…
• v. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
• v. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
• v. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce…
• v. (intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due…
• v. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue,…
• v. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
• v. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed…
• n. (uncountable) (in combination) clothing.
• n. (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
• n. (uncountable) fashion.